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Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field o... more

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This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering ... more

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This book traces a significant shift in 20th century Irish theatre from the largely national plays p... more

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary... more

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This book explores the performance of Irish collective memories and forgotten histories. It proposes... more

professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. Mary C. Hartig teaches English at Montgomery College and is the...... more

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The journals, notebooks, musings, and early song drafts of Jeff Buckley, the late singer best-known ... more

What is design philosophy and why is it needed? This important book explains the discipline’s recent... more

Paramedic Steffensen shares the exciting calls that he responded to. The ups and downs from a boring... more

To what extent does research on musical development impact on educational practices in school and th... more

Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 presents an alternative narrative... more

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness program including a numbe... more

Dance on film has never been more relevant or compelling. From Saturday Night Fever, to Black Swan a... more

Dance on film has never been more relevant or compelling. From Saturday Night Fever, to Black Swan a... more

Exploring the works and influence of a wide range of figures including James Joyce, Marcel Proust, J... more

controversial composers during the first half of the twentieth century. Paul Watt and Anne-Marie Forbes have gathered a team of...... more

From The Artist to The White Ribbon, from Oscar to Palme d’Or-winning productions, European filmmaki... more

Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation as one of the towering figures of Western music history. This... more

In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major ... more

In recent years, Brazil has discovered vast quantities of petroleum deep within its territorial wate... more

Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the strik... more

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This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction o... more

In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual l... more

Sound, Music, Affect features brand new essays that bring together the burgeoning developments in so... more

Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation as one of the towering figures of Western music history. This... more

The anthology of original sources from c.1400 to 1650, translated form Italian or Latin, and accompa... more

More than any other secular story of the Middle Ages, the tale of Tristan and Isolde fascinated its ... more

Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. As cultura... more

Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. As cultura... more

. G. Lorenz, Cathy S. Gelbin, Jennifer E. Michaels, Mary Cosgrove, Andrew Plowman, Roger Woods. Anne Fuchs is Professor of...... more

The CSI Effect: Television, Crime, and Governance demonstrates that CSI’s appeal cannot be disentang... more

The CSI Effect: Television, Crime, and Governance demonstrates that CSI’s appeal cannot be disentang... more

Buffy the Vampire Slayer transcended its cult-comic roots to achieve television success, spawning th... more

A Kansas City Star 2008 Notable Book Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interraci... more

A Kansas City Star 2008 Notable Book Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interraci... more

Leni Riefenstahl is larger than life. From the lure of her persona as it enters our homes via televi... more

The Mind s Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues lo... more

Theatre has always been a site for selling outrage and sensation, a place where public reputations a... more

Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual cul... more

For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and so... more

African modernity will be engaged by this interdisciplinary and broadly appealing volume. Contributors are Heather Marie Akou...... more

First published in 2004. Walter Benjamin famously defined modernity as "the world dominated by its p... more

When Hong Kong entrepreneur David Tang opened his Shanghai Tang boutique on New York’s Madison Avenu... more

When Hong Kong entrepreneur David Tang opened his Shanghai Tang boutique on New York’s Madison Avenu... more

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In Activists Speak Out, a group of fifteen American activists speak candidly about how and why they ... more

Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. B... more

In his early years in Yosemite, Ansel Adams formed the habit of writing letters at every opportunity... more

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used s... more

With contributions from 30 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview... more